Hey everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, Jeff Erickson here with Fred

Zinky. And today's an interesting topic because we're going to talk about some of these

problem pitchers. Every time we talk about who to pick up, but we don't spend as much time

about who to drop.

And you know what?

For every pickup we have, unless you have I-O spots, you got to have a drop. So we're going to do that today. Fred, how are you doing? How are your teams doing? Teams had a pretty good week last week. Start to move up a little bit in the standings. Still some work to do. unfortunately I took a lot of

pitchers in the first

round so that's

going to be

probably our first topic today. I only have one tar at school. That's the Tout draft and hold league. So I have some crochets and no skeins, unfortunately. He's the only one still going. So anyways, how about your teams? Good, but mostly good, for the NFPC main event and auction championship. We're only in my two most expensive leagues. Right. Which kind of stinks. But that's on me. We'll work on that. We'll try to improve that. But let's get right into it with Terrick's school. This one shocked us yesterday. It kind of came out of the blue. Didn't really hear a whole lot about that. It wasn't like he had these horribly bad Garrett Crochet-like outings,

let alone Carlos Estevez like outings where the velocity is way down. He's out for a few months.

He's got the same kind of general category as Edwin Diaz, as as we saw with Hunter Green it's the loose

bodies in his elbow indeterminate an amount of time at this point in time but with with

those guys it was at least three months with Hunter Green it's 14 to 16 weeks that's more than

three months so yeah yeah your reaction to this and I'll have you I'll ask you for some advice on this in a second.

Yeah. So, you know, they said two to three months at the beginning. Let's say it's three. That's early August. Injury optimism is never your friend. Let's call it the middle of August. So let's say he's going to come back in the middle of August. Obviously super disappointing. like you said, the only good thing I'll say about it is he pitched great and then he got out of the way. So you got your 270 ERA, a 0.95, 45 strikeouts and three wins, and then he got out of the way. So you can use someone else in your lineup. So at least he didn't kill you. Just die a slow death with him struggling and then going on the IL. So but still not so obviously really bad as your first round pick to lose him for this long.

I think that he's a keep everywhere.

I just think he's so good that if he's back in the middle of August and let's say he makes

eight starts or something like that, I just think he's so good that it's worth waiting for the eight starts.

He could win half of them, right?

So like get wins in half of them.

It's typically around what he can do.

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